Topic: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

For farming star fragments, they fall once every night, and I've seen them falling between 21:00 and 3:00, and they disappear at 5:00 or 6:00 I believe. They will always fall at where the camera is pointed at.

1. Use a bed or fireplace to sleep until evening.

2. Instantly beam up to the Twin Peaks (because it's evening, 21:00, a Star Fragment could already fall and you could miss it if you're too slow or do other things) so climb up from the shrine to where the Korok is (apple statues) and look at Hyrule Castle, having half of the screen covering the sky. I don't know if it's important, but I have Link facing into the same direction the camera is facing.

Looking at Hyrule Castle proved to be super effective as there's not many pools of water where the fragments could fall into, it's also just grassy plains easy to traverse, and it has a lot of shrines to teleport to.

3. Just wait and observe until 3:00. I was exercising while doing this. Do some physical activity, makes the waiting more bearable.

4. When the fragment falls, lock onto it with your tracker (press right analog stick) and then beam to the nearest shrine. You can also use the Stealth Armor set to run faster at night.

If it's 3:00 and you missed the fragment somehow first look around for the glow, because sometimes they fall in the corner of the screen and their impact zone is off-screen. You can still rush to collect them until 5 or 6am. If you're unlucky, they might have fallen into water while you were not watching the screen. That can happen if you are distracted for just a couple of seconds. If you're extremely unlucky the star fragment could have fallen into water as you were climbing the mountain between 21:00 and 21:10. In both cases you should just (save &) quit & reboot & repeat from step 1.

5. Collect the star piece, then save manually, and quit the whole game. (Quitting the game and booting it up again proved to make shards appear like 99% of the time the next time you boot it up). On Switch you have to quit the game manually from the Home menu, or it stays in sleep mode.

6. Boot up the game again and repeat the steps.

I haven't found a better strat for this, but I was able to max out all pieces of armor, it still took plenty of hours to farm like 40 or 50 of them.

@Monkey_Balls None of the Stalhinox are just scenery. It's like Dizzi said, they wake at night, but if you keep watching them they don't wake up. Go a few steps away and turn the camera around. They're shy.

And you need them all for Kilton's quest. Also, defeated ones are marked with a star next to their names.

@DizziParadise Ganon controls the weather...and Ganon hates Link...ergo...slick mountains and unlit bomb arrows everywhere.

@Spoony_Tech I hate the practise of taking a complete game apart and selling it to you in small pieces as DLC, so I'm not going to pay for a hard mode, or a challenge dungeon; features that were part of the base game in previous entries. Those new masks and armour? Well, I've played games in which those were just free updates. Regardless of whether the second pack is worth the €20 or not, they're charging you now for something you don't even know what you're getting. I really dislike the way this industry is headed sometimes... /rant

@Undead_terror make another account so you can start over and still have your current save

For the first time I'm totally stumped on a Shrine.It's in between Daval Peak and Oseira Plains and is called "Bravery's Grasp".There's a moving platform that I know must be the answer to the puzzle but I've no idea what I'm supposed to do with it.I can freeze it with stasis but it doesn't budge when I hit it.I thought maybe the answer would be to freeze it then hit it and get it to change course on its track,then place a remote bomb on it and make my way to the 2nd highest platform before detonating it and hopefully triggering the switch thingy in the middle.That is all I can think of but the platform wont budge.

I refuse to use a guide and would rather not ask for help but it's frustrating me.

@OorWullie Oh that one. I spent ages on that shrine and was able to solve it using a pretty long complex solution. It's actually really simple though. My only hint is to just make sure u interact with anything that's interesting, and I mean anything. That makes it a lot easier. I never used the obvious solution though. I spent maybe half an hour trying to solve it different way but I was very satisfying when I did. But then again, I felt really dumb when I saw the easy solution XD

@Eric258 Thanks.I think I've actually figured it out in my head although currently I'm way over on the Bridge of Hylia for no apparent reason.If the answer is what I think it is then I feel dumb too haha

The Majora's Mask Link amiibo is up for pre-order at Best Buy (where it is an exclusive) now. I crumpled and bought one 'cause they're gonna sell out again.

BUT MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM I DON'T WANNNNNNNAA MAKE ANOTHER ACCOUNT!

But ya, shame I won't be getting that MM Link amiibo then, at the very least, hope they make more OOT Links that were NOT store exclusive.

Beat the game today. Took about 180 hours. Only have 13 shrines left and I don't feel the need to collect 900 korok seeds. 200 is good enough for me. The only thing left I feel like I want to do are those last shrines, the 11 quests I'm missing, and fully level all my gear. I may just save all that till the dlc shows up and I'm talking about the winter one.

Wonderful experience from beginning to end. My only regret is I won't be able to experience this game again ever for the first time! 😢

I don't have all the seeds myself, but I might attempt to get a lot more once the mask comes out (sorta thinking that should of been a unlock when you find 50-100 seeds alone).
And yee, was really great playing for the first time, it won't be the same playing again unless maybe we wait for like 10 years before restarting the whole game again.

@Spoony_Tech Congrats man,I'm about 60% done and I've put in around 230 hours.I refuse to use fast travel,at least so far.It's added many hours onto my adventure I'm sure.I'll start using fast travel when the long treks become tedious but I'm not there yet.The novelty of riding on my horse Lou (after Lou Reed) for miles to some far off point has not worn off on me yet.

I was thinking about that today,not being able to experience it again for the first time.I was up Mt Hylia and paraglided down onto the Great Plateau and climbed the church for old time sake and memories of my first day with the game came flooding back.Truly magical game.

@Spoony_Tech Hey, on the plus side, the next Zelda might be even better. The foundation is set for future Zelda games, so fingers crossed they improve upon what's already been brought to the table with Breath of the Wild.

Darn it. That's the one I wanted. Guess I'll wait for another opportunity.

Of course I did the same thing with the NES Classic Edition and boy what a botched idea that was.

@Frosty_09 That Skyrim meat concept art. But seriously, what's up with the sketch lines on everyone's cheeks? They're on that crab's claw and the side of that meat as well. When we talk about 'art style,' I don't think we meant we literally want to see the echoes of manga art in-game.

@TheLZdragon Amiibo haven't been discontinued yet to my knowledge. At least not the figures. You should be able to get one eventually.

@Frosty_09 That's the first time I've seen something like that from the Treehouse (a longish personal blog post). I wondered who authored it, then got to the bottom, and of course: Bill T.

He's got a way with words and some unique and interesting insights. I'm glad crabs qualified as seafood. I would've been pretty gutted if crab + fish = dubious food.

Haru mentioning Skyrim? Am I Bill Murray? Is this Groundhog Day?

@BillyBlane Sorry, let me just go find another game that concepts its myriad inventory items, renders them in full 3D, and applies physics to them in the environment...

Also, there were a few headlines made out of this back in 2011:

If anyone has two hours to spare, here's an interesting video that goes in-depth into the shrines, combat, durability and balance of the game. It's worth your time if you're interested in these in-depth analyses:

You're right! Tried it the other night, and that's exactly the problem I had. What's worse is, after many attempts, I finally killed one of them, but it didn't actually give me the Lynel Horn that it requires, so I think it might make a difference where you slash him as to what item it gives you. (though I could be wrong on how that mechanism works, and is also possible that what you get after killing one is just random).

Anyone who has tried it that can confirm this?